File talk:Pidgin-IM Logo.svg

Hi Joel. My name is Mark and I'm a developer on the Pidgin project. There was a question about the license of this file on our mailing list and I thought it would be a good idea to add a comment here. To my knowledge all images from the Pidgin project are licensed as "GPLv2 or newer." I believe that according to the GPLv2, any image that is considered "a derivative work" must also be licensed as GPLv2 or newer.

Your image is listed as "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported." The image appears like it might have been recreated (and is not simply one of our png's saved as an svg). I honestly don't know whether this would be considered a derivative work. I don't think anything necessarily needs to change and I don't think we need to worry about this, because it's honestly not very important. But I did want to mention it.

I have changed the licensing to GPLv2 to conform with the work of the Pidgin project. Since this is a derivative work of a raster version on the commons, I had used the same released this under the same licensing as the original image, which was "Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported". Jtornado (talk) 19:36, 13 April 2013 (UTC)